What it does: Okane is the first mining consulting company with a proven Roadmap to Closure. Our multidisciplinary team specializes in providing integrated mine planning, mine closure , and relinquishment services at all mining stages.
Mission: Our mission is to challenge the status quo and advocate for meaningful partnerships and positive outcomes for community stakeholders and Indigenous rightsholders.
Size and presence: Okane has offices in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand, and our team has worked with mine sites all around the world.
Best known for: We use client-specific values and risk profiles to produce innovative and cost-effective solutions, and our team is committed to fostering long-term client relationships.
The good bits: A lot to learn from the experience of experts.
The not-so-good bits: A bit low on the work-life balance.
Founded in 1996, Okane has found success working with our clients to develop the most effective solutions to mine closure and waste management using fundamental and defensible science and technology. Each mine site and waste storage facility has unique challenges and Okane works closely with clients, partners, local communities, and other stakeholders to provide cost-effective and environmentally responsible solutions. Our sustainable mining solutions include integrated life of mine and closure planning, allowing for maximum flexibility to realize the benefits of progressive closure and achieve closure objectives. Okane’s sophisticated modeling approach and mature data quality management allow us to develop conceptual and predictive digital models that support our clients manage risk throughout their asset’s lifecycle.
At Okane, we’re committed to having a diverse workforce. Our focus on diversity and inclusion enables us to build a culture where all employees are inspired to share their talent and passion. Okane is proud of our demographics and gender balance companywide.
We’re looking for people who share our values and who want to help create a better tomorrow. Passionate, Smart and Clever, Positive, Thoughtful and Caring, and humble (our values) describe Okane’s culture. Our business is structured in a way that we are all one team, despite our geographical spread. We are a small company which allows our staff to get to know and work with each other, even from the other side of the world.
We value work-life balance and flexibility for our staff – you will find a sense of family with Okane, both through our culture, as well as through our employee ownership structure.
Okane is proud of our inclusive workforce and believes that our diverse group of people is what makes our culture unique.
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
⛔ Hospital
⛔ Outpatient
⛔ Dental
⛔ Maternity
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
✅ Free dinner
Okane designs installs and manages monitoring systems across environmental and mining applications for clients globally. Our monitoring programs and systems are designed to evaluate the cover system, waste rock dump, tailing storage facility, and landfill construction performance. Evaluating the performance of these systems provides Okane with valuable information about site-specific controls that can be translated into effective management actions and closure designs. We also conduct rehabilitation, environmental groundwater, surface water, and stream monitoring. We interpret data from these systems to ensure clients achieve regulatory compliance, site closure objectives, and overall rehabilitation success.